Editing Chief mechanical engineer (section)

{{Short description|Position in railway companies}}
'''Chief mechanical engineer''' and '''locomotive superintendent''' are titles applied by British, Australian, and New Zealand railway companies to the person ultimately responsible to the board of the company for the building and maintaining of the [[locomotive]]s and [[rolling stock]]. In Britain, the post of ''locomotive superintendent'' was introduced in the late 1830s, and ''chief mechanical engineer'' in 1886.